Despite the threat of extinction, the Crimean Tatars remain loyal to Ukraine and continue to fight for their homeland.

However, Moscow still singles out Tatars, whose community of 250,000 comprises only 12 percent of Crimea’s population. Out of what rights groups have termed Crimea’s 208 “political” prisoners, they ...

On Wednesday, 18 December, the Czech Senate (the upper house of the Czech Parliament) recognised the mass deportation of the Crimean Tatars as an act of genocide. Source: Mariia Mezentseva ...

Atesh is a partisan group that is based in the Crimea, whose members are mostly made up of local Tatars and Ukrainians.

This is how Tatars ended up in Poland, in the eastern province of Podlasie. The so-called Tatar Trail, comprising of a circle of cities – Białystok, Sokółka, Bohoniki, Krynki, Kruszyniany, Krynki and ...

The Russians have began mass searches in the homes of Crimean Tatars in temporarily occupied Crimea on the morning of 5 February. the home of Emir Kurtnezirov, son of political prisoner Remzi ...

Last month, Ukrainian President Voldymyr Zelensky unveiled a bill that he said was designed to help preserve the heritage of the tiny minority groups, plus the Tatars, a Muslim people. But by desi ...

After nine years in a Russian prison, three Crimean political prisoners from the "first Bakhchysarai group" case—Remzi ...

For 600 years, the Podlasie region in north-eastern Poland – on the present-day border with Belarus and Lithuania – has been home to the Lipka Tatars, one of the oldest continuously existing Muslim ...

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